Collar-fastener.



-A. REED. COLLAR FASTENER.

APPLICATION TILED AUG. 24,1908.

908,422. Patented Dec. 29, 1908.

PATENT QFFTCE.

ADAM REED, OF MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH O. PARKER, OFMIDDLE- TOWN, DELAWARE.

COLLAR-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 29, 1908.

Application filed August 24:, 1908. Serial N 0. &50,009.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM REED, a citizen of the United States, residingat Middletown, in the county of Newcastle and State of Delaware, haveinvented a new and useful Collar-Fastener, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to horse collar fastoners.

The object of the invention is to provide a novel fastener of thischaracter in which the usual thongs or strips of leather that areemployed for securing the fastener members to the collar sections aredispensed with, whereby to effect a pronounced saving in theconstruction of horse collars and also materially to reduce the laborincident to its manufacture. Furthermore, to provide a fastener whichshall have an extended bearing upon the collar members, that is to say,shall extend practically from side to side thereof, thereby to securethe most stable connection between the parts.

/Vith the above and other objects in View, as will appear as the natureof the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts of a horse collar fastener, aswill be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, andin which like I characters of reference indicate corresponding parts :Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a horse collar fastener constructedin accordance with the resent invention. Fi 2 is a perspective etailview of one of the fastener members.

The fastener embodies two attaching plates or members 1 and 2, a bridge3, and a looking lever 4. The bridge embodies two longitudinal upwardlybowed side arms 5 and 6, and two cross bars 7 and 8, that are integralwith the side arms. The side arm 6 is provided with an upstanding lip orstop 9 that is designed to prevent the hames from working off thefastener.

The attaching member 1 comprises 2 flat perforated plates 10 that aredisposed in approximate parallelism, and are connected by a bar 11. Theintermediate portion of the bar 1 1 is provided with two upwardly curvedarms 12, that are connected by a bar 13 upon which is hinged the lockinglever 4, the latter being provided with a split sleeve 14 to engage thebar. The lever is provided with a downwardly extending lip or flange 15to engage with either of the cross bars 7 or 8 in order to draw thecollar sections firmly together. In practice, the cross bars 7 and 8will be spaced at such distances apart, as to permit of the necessaryadjustment of the collar sections to meet any requirement that mayarise.

The member 2 comprises two flat perforated plates 16, disposed inapproximate parallelism and connected by a bar 17. The bar 17 is engagedby two split sleeves 18 carried by the like ends of the side arms 5 and6, and in order to prevent the bridge from having any extended lateralmovement relatively to the member 2, the intermediate portion of the bar17 is of less diameter than its end portions, providing therebyshoulders 19 which will secure the object sought.

In attaching the fastener to a collar, the plates are secured thereto byrivets passing through the orifices 20 in the four plates 10 and 16, andowing to the fact that the plates are spaced a considerable distanceapart, they can be secured to a heavy collar in a manner that will bestable and will enable the fastener to resist the strains to which itwill be subjected in use.

The improvements herein defined, while simple in character, will befound thoroughly efficient for the purposes designed, and will coact inthe production of an efficient,dura ble and highly practical form ofcollar fastener.

I claim A horse collar fastener comprising a pair of attaching members,each of which embodies 1 two orifioed plates arranged in approximateparallelism, one of the members being provided at its intermediateportion with a pair of upstanding arms connected by a cross bar, alocking lever having a split sleeve to engage the cross bar and providedwith a depending lip, and a bridge pivotally connected my own, I havehereto affixed my signature with the ofther mtember 1gand embobingha inthe presence of two Witnesses. plurality 0 cross ars to e engage y t e Ilip of the locking lever and with an upstanding ADAM REED 5 member tohold the hames from slipping from Witnesses:

the fastener. ALFRED G. Cox,-

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as WALTER BEASTEN.

